Composition of the DPA pending the appointment of the directors and members
The members of the executive committee, the knowledge center and the litigation chamber are appointed by the Belgian Federal House of Representatives on the basis of their competences and experience in the field of the protection of personal data, their independence and their moral authority. Together they face the legal, economic, ethical and technological challenges of the evolution of digital society. The members of the executive committee, the knowledge center and the litigation chamber are appointed for a once renewable term of six years.
The members of the executive committee, the knowledge center and the litigation chamber still have to be appointed by the Chamber of Representatives. Therefore, by law of 24 May 2018 amending the law of 3 December 2017, it was decided that the members of the Commission for the protection of privacy exercise the duties and powers of the Data Protection Authority during this transitional period. The mandate of the members of the CPP ends on the day on which the members of the executive committee take the oath and sign the declaration confirming that they are no conflicts of interest.
The permanent and substitute members of the former CPP are part of the DPA in its provisional composition. The composition of the DPA pending the appointment of the directors, the members of the knowledge center and the disputes room is as follows:
Executive committee
Willem Debeuckelaere | Director knowledge center |
Jo Baret | Director general secretariat |
Frank Schuermans | Inspector-general and director front office |
Séverine Waterbley | Inspector-general and director front office |
Dirk van der Kelen | Chairman litigation chamber |
Litigation chamber
Dirk van der Kelen |
Frank Desmet |
Joël Livyns |
Serge Mertens de Wilmars |
Ivan Vandermeersch |
Knowledge center
Willem Debeuckelaere | Permanent member |
Stefan Verschuere | Permanent member |
Jo Baret | Permanent member |
Frank Robben | Permanent member |
Gert Vermeulen | Permanent member |
Séverine Waterbley | Permanent member |
Frank De Smet | Substitute member |
Joël Livyns | Substitute member |
Serge Mertens de Wilmars | Substitute member |
Mireille Salmon | Substitute member |
Frank Schuermans | Substitute member |
Dirk van der Kelen | Substitute member |
Ivan Vandermeersch | Substitute member |
- The Authority
- International
- Article 29 Working Party on the protection of personal data
- European Data Protection Supervisor
- Customs Information System Joint Supervisory Authority
- Europol Joint Supervisory Body
- Schengen Joint Supervisory Authority
- Visa Information System (VIS)
- Eurodac
- Global Privacy Enforcement Network
- Working Party on Police en Justice
- European Conference on Data Protection
- Berlin Group
- International Conference of Data Protection and Authorityers
- Conference of the Association francophone des autorités de protection des données personnelles